An Experiment

[rangerdanger]

I'm sure you've noticed how different pot affects you differently.
Some pot makes you sleepy, some enegizes you, some gives you major cotton-mouth or killer munchies, some makes you laugh like a loon or majorly horny.
And why is this?
There are many "ingredients" in marijuana that get you high, not just THC. It is the amount of these that determine the high.
And for the grower, here is something you can try to get different kinds of high from the same plant.
Harvest a branch at 3 weeks of flowering, and then take another branch every week.
Generally speaking, the buds that are harvested early are more of a "mind", active high--not too much THC.
The longer you wait, the more THC there is, which produces more of a body, lethargic stone.

[Sparky]

I understand that a whole lot differently myself Ranger.

THC is the chem that induces the 'mind' high whereas CBD's and CBN's are the chems that induce more of a 'body' stone. The earlier you harvest the plant the more THC there is to CBD/CBN's. It's a ratio that varys from strain to strain as well...thus some strains produce a body stone (indicas) and some produce more of a heady high (sativas). The later into flower the plant gets, the more the THC to CBD/CBN ratio changes. THC starts to drop off and CBD/CBN's start to rise. While your theory is sound in effect, I think your info may have been a bit misleading. Just wanted to clear that up. :bandit:

[Heath_Bogenreif]

I have a quick smoke report on some three week buds.

Mmmm tastes like leaves. ;)

[theMD]

I'm not sure if anyone has ever fully explained the effects of all the individual cannabinoids (?) in cannabis. Those chemicals have been isolated: THC, CBD, CBN, and a few others. According to one study I read none of the individual chemicals could be isolated for use in pain medication. Basically their conclusion was that the combination of the different chemicals is what results in the medicinal effects of cannabis. In other words, it is the plant as a whole that is beneficial as medicine.....another example of how the whole (plant) is greater than the sum of its parts (individual chemicals).

Therefore, simply adding more THC may or may not cause a significantly "higher" body high. However, the extra THC in combination with specific amounts of CBN and CBD (among others) might increase the body high. With different amounts of CBN and CBD the addition of THC might actually cause more of a mind high.

All that technical mumbo jumbo aside (who really cares anyway?), ranger's observations are spot on. Early harvests tend to have the right combination of THC/CBD/CBN to produce more of a mind high, whereas later harvests have the combination that produces more of a body high.

[Nesta]

im stickin with the "plant as a whole" theory. Sounds good to me :D seems to be workin :bongdude:

[Hill_billy]

....and I'll have to go with the "plant in a hole theory, along with some nutes and water...:D

[rangerdanger]

How I understand it: hash is very high in THC. It's made by seperating the trichomes (crystals) from the rest of the plant material. And hash produces more of a body stone than smoking buds.
I think the trike's are very high in THC and the other components of the high are contained in the plant material. I have smoked leaves before (very low in THC/trikes) and have NOT experienced much of a body stone.

My main point in this thread was that you can get different types of effects by smoking buds harvested from the same plant at different times during flowering.
I like variety.